Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who became a symbol of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, was released from a US detention facility Thursday after a federal judge said the government lacked any legal grounds to keep him in custody.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from immigration detention on a judge’s order Thursday while he fights to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory to the immigrant whose wrongful deportation to a noto...

"I stand before you a free man and I want you to remember me this way, with my head held up high," he said through a translator.